Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre: Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

by Robert Weimann

Book Overview

This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England.
While its most basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the prologue's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415334438
• ISBN13: 9780415334433
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.5"